MICHAEL SILENCE HAS A QUESTION FOR THE ASSOCIATED PRESS: “If you don’t want bloggers using your stuff why offer RSS?”

Meanwhile, Don Surber emails:

There is the irony in an organization that steals stories (albeit from its members) left and right having the chutzpah to whine about people quoting its stuff.

As an editorial writer, I learned early on to find the actual source of the story rather than go with the AP version. It is a rip-and-read service that occasionally tries its hand at something beyond spot news reporting. It is what it is.

Ouch.